News on Science and Technology

Geologists at Uppsala University have traced magma movement beneath Mount Cameroon volcano, which will help monitoring for future volcanic eruption...

A new research project, ‘1,000 Ancient Genomes’, seeks to map the genetic variation among 1,000 prehistoric individuals who lived in Europe and Asi...

An environmentally friendly, efficient and low-cost method for hydrogenation of graphene with visible light has been developed by researchers at Up...

The one millimetre long roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has been used as a model organism in scientific research, and has therefore been extensive...

In the animal kingdom colourful traits can be both a blessing and a curse. A new study from a group of researchers at Uppsala University has studie...

Three new honorary doctors have been named by the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University: mathematician Yakov Eliashberg, biologis...

Auli Niemi, Professor of Groundwater Modelling at the Department of Earth Sciences and Anders Hagfeldt, solar cell researcher and guest professor a...

Upptech, or Uppsala University School of Technology, is a new centre founded by the Faculty of Science and Technology. The centre will focus on pro...

This week in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers shows that fossils of the 360 million-year-old tetrapod Acanthostega, one of ...

Using the giant ALMA telescope in Chile, astronomers in Japan, the UK, Sweden and Germany have found oxygen in an extremely distant galaxy – farthe...

A research team at Uppsala University has determined the complete genetic code of 11 members of a flycatcher pedigree. Doing this, they have for th...

QS World University Rankings has published their 2016/17 list of the world’s top universities. Uppsala University is ranked 98th – up from 102nd pl...

Researchers at Uppsala University have discovered a new combination of materials that paves the way for faster and more effective storage in electr...

Sascha Ott, Professor of Synthetic Molecular Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded EUR 2 million in a Consolidator Grant from ...

The population of Europe consists largely of a mixture of groups that came from the south to the continent almost 8,000 years ago, and groups that ...

The Uppsala University Innovation Prize is an award given to recognise successful transference of knowledge. This year, the prize is being awarded ...

The inside of a cell is an exciting, eventful place. Here are all of our genes and all of the proteins that regulate them, the so-called transcript...

Uppsala University is now offering three web-based Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The courses are free of charge and fully open to the public...

Climate researcher Kevin Anderson will be Uppsala University’s second holder of the Zennström Visiting Professorship in Climate Change Leadership. ...

For the first time, researchers have revealed the nanostructure of the mesoporous magnesium carbonate Upsalite® and pore size control was achieved ...